On one of my three trips to Israel part of our tour was to tour the Holocaust Museum. At some point into the museum exhibits I exited and went to sit down at a table outside of the building. Pretty soon there was one of our tour guides, a woman, who came to sit down with me, gently asking questions about why I left viewing the tour fully. Can't remember the exact words but the reason is that I had already fully immersed myself in the knowledge of what happened in the Holocaust. My soul was already soaked in the sorrow and the outrage of it all. I spent many years previous to that trip to Israel self-educating through books, articles, movies and videos. I already knew. Most of the people in our tour group going through there had a thimble full of what I had already swam in preparing for what God would have for me next, the Israel prayer summaries.
The reason I thought of this is because a friend of mine sent me video of a nine year old girl and what she went through as a hostage of Hamas. I just couldn't watch it. Not because I'm avoiding the truth, but because I have not avoided the truth for the past 30 years - long before starting the prayer summaries for Israeli ministries, I already was baptized in the river of sorrow that is the Jewish experience. A person cannot stand in that river flow forever. I had to climb out of it and stand in the river of life flowing from the heart of the LORD toward His people Israel.
I encourage you to watch this because until you know, you don't know.
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